Richard J. Clifford. Richard J. Clifford, S.J., is professor of Old Testament and dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (founded in June 2008). A former editor of The Catholic ...

Invariably, they conclude that the historical-critically derived “original meaning” does not lend itself to its later New Testament (or other Christian) usage, absent both hindsight and an a priori ...

The Masoretes were a group of Hebrew scholars who worked for 400 years to collect all the versions of the Old Testament and refine them into an authoritative text.

The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582, and the Old Testament at Douay in 1609-1610. The language of the text was modernized by Bishop Challoner (1749-1752). 5.

The “New Way” project started coming together in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, but Wolfgang’s interest in the Old Testament leading to the story of Jesus started back in 2012, when he ...

A dull-looking chart projected on the wall of a university office in Jerusalem displayed a revelation that would startle many readers of the Old Testament: The sacred text that people revered in ...

Jerome (A.D. 340-420) translated the Old Testament not from the Greek Septuagint but from the Hebrew original; the New Testament he took from its original Greek.

The Septuagint—which, at roughly 2200 years old or more, is the earliest existing Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament—took the latter tack, calling the skin of his face “charged ...

It took a certain amount of daring to collaborate with a Jew, an unconverted Jew, in England in the early 19th century, but Byron had compelling reasons to collaborate with Nathan.

The name ‘Mizraim’ is the original name given for Egypt in the Hebrew Old Testament. Many Bibles will have a footnote next to the name ‘Mizraim’ explaining that it means ‘Egypt.’ ...